Sublime

One of the most famous was under the Polish writer and visionary Janusz Korczak, who created a republic for children with its own newspaper, court and parliament (he was later gassed by the Nazis in Treblinka, along with the orphans he looked after). His idea was that children should exercise sovereignty early on and might do a better job than the

And when they left, he’d spend twice as long as their visit bemoaning how big-headed and tiny-minded they were, how American Jews were Jews and these Israeli crackpots were Hebrews—people who, given their way, would sacrifice animals and serve kings.

(This kind of scheme is currently being pioneered in Scandinavia, where governments follow the motto “Protect workers, not jobs.”)

The development of nostalgia for the Soviet past and the Soviet space coincided with the largest migration of east European Jews to the Western Hemisphere since the turn of the twentieth century.

Abraham ibn Daud.

These stories express the Jewish community’s two highest hopes and deepest fears. The first hope is that the Jews in this new place will remain part of the chain of Jewish tradition, and the second hope is that the local population will accept them.

So it was back to the Franciscans, and back to the embassy again with the suitcases. At last, on Saturday 24 September, Van Breda saw them locked away in the embassy safe. He travelled back to Freiburg, then out of Germany to Louvain. He kept with him just a handful of texts, so that the transcription project could start. To his relief, the border

trenchant,